if we dunked a recording GoPro into a
container of liquid nitrogen how long do
you think it would keep recording before
it freezes up and shuts down I just got
back from the store where I picked up a
couple of GoPros I got the Hero 5 black
as well as the hero 5 section this one
cost me about $400 and if it survives
this torture trial I’m going to give it
to one of you this one here’s the hero 5
black it records 12 megapixels and also
shoots in 4k another cool feature is
it’s got a LCD screen on the back so you
can actually see what you’re recording
as you do it that’s a nice feature to
have this one here is the new Hero 5
session shoots in 10 megapixels and 4k
which my old one only shoots in 1080 and
this one has built-in stabilizer as well
so as you’re hand holding it it helps
balance out some of the footage so it
might be a good idea to start off with
my older GoPro to see if this is even a
viable idea because I don’t want to
waste new technology unnecessarily we
just filled up our container with liquid
nitrogen you can see this thing is
extremely frosty and ready to go so
let’s throw this thing on the tongues
get it recording then give it its
cryogenic bath that it’s destined to
take so we’ve got this set up on
Bluetooth right now I’m actually doing a
screen record of what we’re seeing here
on the GoPro that way if this freezes up
we’ll still have the backed up footage
on my cell phone hey guys ready to go
here are the tongs
and let’s just go ahead and dip this in
for maybe like five seconds and see if
it survives
okay we are confirmed recording it’s
time to dip
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and apparently it looks like it’s still
recording and over here you can see yet
we’re still getting the Bluetooth feed
so that’s really cool oh that’s really
cool we got a phone within a phone
within a phone within a phone
that’s phone inception so very cool our
GoPro survived the first five seconds I
didn’t really have any doubt that it
would because it didn’t cool down too
much this time let’s push the boundaries
let’s fully submerge it and just leave
it in there until the nitrogen cools it
down completely I’m a little bit nervous
about this one because we might lose the
footage but that’s a risk I’m willing to
take
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there we go it is fully submerged and
all you can see now is this little red
flashing light at the bottom of the
container now the reason it’s bubbling
so profusely is because the hero is
cooling down and releasing all that heat
as the nitrogen bubbles start to flatten
out that means our hero session will
have cooled down completely and if you
look over here at the camera this is the
view that our camera is having right now
and it’s still recording the red lights
still flashing we’re into at about 25
seconds now and it’s still going
that red lights to have folk there goes
camera low battery so we just got a low
battery warning I no longer see the red
light flashing but I do see it’s still
recording through the Bluetooth feed but
this is actually really impressive I did
not expect it to go this long we just
got like a triple flash there the camera
just turned off I can’t tell if the
camera turned itself off just because it
had a low battery warning or if it was
the nitrogen that frozen solid that was
maybe really bad timing and I probably
should have charged this up beforehand
but based on these results I think I am
willing to experiment with the new
cameras and put them through the same
experiments and see what kind of results
we get with them I’m really curious to
know if we saved the footage from that
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haha wow it is super cold but you know
what it looks in great shape
let’s just frost bit me I’m gonna set it
there whoa the backplate just fell off
hey never wondered what’s inside a GoPro
I gotta put that down though because
it’s like frost biting my fingertips
that is really cool guys it’s actually
so cold that it’s condensing the
moisture out of the air we’re getting
like frost build-up all around it and if
I breathe on it we can just accelerate
that effect
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and that is how you get yourself a
custom white GoPro okay so we got the
Hero 5 session we got it hooked up to my
phone and we got our nitrogen
replenished we’re going to sync this one
in and just let it run until it freezes
completely the battery is charged so we
shouldn’t have any connection issues
with the battery and it’s currently
recording so let’s plunge this down into
liquid nitrogen and see what happens
hero 5 session let’s make it happen look
at how the nitrogen just bubbles on the
glass there I’m just going to leave that
there for a second because that’s kind
of cool
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still recording so far and all the way
in cool now we’re just going to let that
saute for about one and a half to two
minutes and when that stops boiling the
GoPro should be about the same
temperature as the liquid nitrogen we’re
into at about 35 seconds now and
everything’s going strong the picture
still looks clear on the Bluetooth it’s
actually amazing to me that it can still
transmit bluetooth wirelessly at those
temperatures it looks like it’s starting
to glitch out a little bit
oh yeah camera just turned off at least
it disconnected from the phone but the
light’s still flashing in there so it
looks like the GoPro is probably still
recording there’s like some little black
junk floating around
oh there goes the GoPro just shut off so
it looks like these things can handle
about 60 seconds in liquid nitrogen
before they automatically power down if
you look straight down on it it kind of
looks like a creepy eyeball this has
been sitting in there for about five
minutes let’s go ahead and fish it out
and take a look at the damage there we
go
that thing is cold watch closely what
happens when I breathe on it gently you
can literally see the moisture from my
breath condensing oh it looks like we
lost the back panel the back panel fell
right off oh and the buttons still in
there that right there is our button so
hopefully when that heats back up we’ll
be able to pop that back together so
cool while that’s thawing out let’s go
ahead and torture test the hero five
black we’ll leave this thing recording
until it shuts down all right let’s go
for a nitrogen dip so far so good
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let’s give it about another five seconds
here oh look at that the crystals in the
LCD are actually freezing up see even
though I’m moving the camera around it’s
not creating an image that is stationary
so we may have just fried the LCD we’re
pushing 45 seconds now and I just heard
the camera shutting down it stopped
recording LCD screen is still on so
let’s just go ahead and leave that and
see how long they’ll sit before the LCD
screen shuts off again oh and check this
GoPro out this has just got completely
frosty while we’ve been waiting that’s
insane
Frost do you heat the GoPro okay so the
LCD screen has turned off again can I
touch it to make it come back on let’s
find out okay it’s gone completely
unresponsive and you see how that just
frost over instantly the second it
touches the air alright so I think this
one is cooked let’s go ahead and set
that to the side so there was a glass
lens here and that’s popped off it looks
like the inner lens is still okay we may
have to fish off that glass lens let me
grab that really quick all right cool
that’s really cold it looks like it was
held on with some kind of adhesive that
probably just got so cold and cracked
away when that warms up we may be able
to just push it back into place but you
can see this inner lens looks like it’s
probably going to be just fine it was
just this protective lens that popped
off right now it’s probably about minus
300 degrees Fahrenheit it’s starting to
warm up just a little bit if we open the
battery compartment our battery is still
in there looks like it’s in pretty good
shape oh okay so that’s not coming out I
will just leave that in there it seems
that when the SD card gets too cold the
ejecting mechanism doesn’t work so we’re
gonna have to let that warm back up and
then we’ll see if we got any good
footage from it you can see the hero
session pops apart into three pieces we
got the button and the backplate and
then we got this little sensor this
moisture sensor it’ll be interesting to
see if that gets triggered because it
was just nitrogen so it shouldn’t
everyone does when I get stricken you
can see those came out pretty dang
frosty we’ll give those about 25 minutes
to warm back up and then pull the SD
cards and see if we can recover any of
that footage so update guys it’s a day
later now and these things have sat out
all night and completely acclimated back
to room temperature it took about an
hour for them to completely defrost
and unfortunately we lost all the data
we kept getting error messages saying
the SD cards were corrupted so none of
the footage that we got with the GoPros
was salvageable
unfortunately so here’s our hero five
black and here’s our hero five session
so let’s see if we can replace the
button and just pop that back panel back
in place so it looks like it’s just held
on by adhesive nothing really snaps into
place there which is kind of surprising
so apparently we got that adhesive so
cold that it just froze up and then when
this metal panel shrunk that’s what
caused it to pop off the back so now
that’s warmed up hopefully that will
stay in place the LCD display looks
completely normal if we press the button
it looks like we can even get it
recording what’s up welcome back from
your cryogenic bath so our hero five
sessions survived it looks like works in
perfect conditions so I’ll probably be
using this for future videos let’s check
out the hero 5 black and see how it held
up now the first damage we noticed
obviously is this protective screen
popped off so it’s obviously not
waterproof right now this ridge right
here is tacky though and now that it’s
warm back up we might be able to clean
that lens off clean this piece of glass
and put it back together so let’s find
some microfiber cloth and see if we can
restore it to its original condition I
am curious to know if the LCD screen
survived because when we were doing our
test if it froze the image and I almost
look like it destroyed it so it’ll be
interesting to see if that comes back on
so this display I noticed that there is
like a small crack it look like a hair
at first but I think it actually is a
crack and there definitely is something
in there between the layers of the
screen so that’s not optimal how
maybe we can turn this thing on okay
actually the LCD screen on the front is
still working that definitely is some
kind of a fracture or crack because I
can see it is raised up underneath the
surface there and there is some
discoloration in the screen it’s still
usable it’s just not perfect and we’ve
got an SD card error but look at this
the LCD screen is actually still working
and apparently it’s working very well
that’s still in really good condition
this blows my mind because that was
frozen solid you guys saw the image was
not moving I’m really impressed that
came back with such clarity how cool
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this is cool the glass didn’t crack or
anything so as long as we can clean this
up and put it back together it should be
in pretty good shape
alright that’s looking good and in place
and hopefully with a little bit of
pressure we can get that adhesive to
grab back on
I wonder if this voids the warranty cool
the screen is replaced it actually looks
like it’s back in there nice and tight
sweet so this is the hero 5 black I just
put a new SD card in and it was working
perfectly so there you have it guys now
you know what happens when you soak a
GoPro in liquid nitrogen they are
surprisingly resilient I had no idea
that they’d hold up that well so I threw
these things back in their packaging and
they’re almost as good as new they’re
fully functioning they work great and so
I’m going to pick two of you and give
these things away so stick around and
I’ll tell you how you can qualify here’s
how to win yourself the GoPro go to
Instagram comm slash the king of random
and click to follow my page for the next
7 days I’ll be posting Instagram stories
with bits of code embedded into them so
you’ll need to write down the code every
day for the next 7 days and then I’ll
post a link to where you can submit your
answer and enter to win the GoPro but
remember Instagram story’s only lasts
for 24 hours you need to check in every
day to get the next piece of the code
Instagram calm /the king of random
follow me there watch for the updates
and best of luck with the contest see ya
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container of liquid nitrogen how long do
you think it would keep recording before
it freezes up and shuts down I just got
back from the store where I picked up a
couple of GoPros I got the Hero 5 black
as well as the hero 5 section this one
cost me about $400 and if it survives
this torture trial I’m going to give it
to one of you this one here’s the hero 5
black it records 12 megapixels and also
shoots in 4k another cool feature is
it’s got a LCD screen on the back so you
can actually see what you’re recording
as you do it that’s a nice feature to
have this one here is the new Hero 5
session shoots in 10 megapixels and 4k
which my old one only shoots in 1080 and
this one has built-in stabilizer as well
so as you’re hand holding it it helps
balance out some of the footage so it
might be a good idea to start off with
my older GoPro to see if this is even a
viable idea because I don’t want to
waste new technology unnecessarily we
just filled up our container with liquid
nitrogen you can see this thing is
extremely frosty and ready to go so
let’s throw this thing on the tongues
get it recording then give it its
cryogenic bath that it’s destined to
take so we’ve got this set up on
Bluetooth right now I’m actually doing a
screen record of what we’re seeing here
on the GoPro that way if this freezes up
we’ll still have the backed up footage
on my cell phone hey guys ready to go
here are the tongs
and let’s just go ahead and dip this in
for maybe like five seconds and see if
it survives
okay we are confirmed recording it’s
time to dip
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and apparently it looks like it’s still
recording and over here you can see yet
we’re still getting the Bluetooth feed
so that’s really cool oh that’s really
cool we got a phone within a phone
within a phone within a phone
that’s phone inception so very cool our
GoPro survived the first five seconds I
didn’t really have any doubt that it
would because it didn’t cool down too
much this time let’s push the boundaries
let’s fully submerge it and just leave
it in there until the nitrogen cools it
down completely I’m a little bit nervous
about this one because we might lose the
footage but that’s a risk I’m willing to
take
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there we go it is fully submerged and
all you can see now is this little red
flashing light at the bottom of the
container now the reason it’s bubbling
so profusely is because the hero is
cooling down and releasing all that heat
as the nitrogen bubbles start to flatten
out that means our hero session will
have cooled down completely and if you
look over here at the camera this is the
view that our camera is having right now
and it’s still recording the red lights
still flashing we’re into at about 25
seconds now and it’s still going
that red lights to have folk there goes
camera low battery so we just got a low
battery warning I no longer see the red
light flashing but I do see it’s still
recording through the Bluetooth feed but
this is actually really impressive I did
not expect it to go this long we just
got like a triple flash there the camera
just turned off I can’t tell if the
camera turned itself off just because it
had a low battery warning or if it was
the nitrogen that frozen solid that was
maybe really bad timing and I probably
should have charged this up beforehand
but based on these results I think I am
willing to experiment with the new
cameras and put them through the same
experiments and see what kind of results
we get with them I’m really curious to
know if we saved the footage from that
[Music]
haha wow it is super cold but you know
what it looks in great shape
let’s just frost bit me I’m gonna set it
there whoa the backplate just fell off
hey never wondered what’s inside a GoPro
I gotta put that down though because
it’s like frost biting my fingertips
that is really cool guys it’s actually
so cold that it’s condensing the
moisture out of the air we’re getting
like frost build-up all around it and if
I breathe on it we can just accelerate
that effect
[Music]
and that is how you get yourself a
custom white GoPro okay so we got the
Hero 5 session we got it hooked up to my
phone and we got our nitrogen
replenished we’re going to sync this one
in and just let it run until it freezes
completely the battery is charged so we
shouldn’t have any connection issues
with the battery and it’s currently
recording so let’s plunge this down into
liquid nitrogen and see what happens
hero 5 session let’s make it happen look
at how the nitrogen just bubbles on the
glass there I’m just going to leave that
there for a second because that’s kind
of cool
[Music]
still recording so far and all the way
in cool now we’re just going to let that
saute for about one and a half to two
minutes and when that stops boiling the
GoPro should be about the same
temperature as the liquid nitrogen we’re
into at about 35 seconds now and
everything’s going strong the picture
still looks clear on the Bluetooth it’s
actually amazing to me that it can still
transmit bluetooth wirelessly at those
temperatures it looks like it’s starting
to glitch out a little bit
oh yeah camera just turned off at least
it disconnected from the phone but the
light’s still flashing in there so it
looks like the GoPro is probably still
recording there’s like some little black
junk floating around
oh there goes the GoPro just shut off so
it looks like these things can handle
about 60 seconds in liquid nitrogen
before they automatically power down if
you look straight down on it it kind of
looks like a creepy eyeball this has
been sitting in there for about five
minutes let’s go ahead and fish it out
and take a look at the damage there we
go
that thing is cold watch closely what
happens when I breathe on it gently you
can literally see the moisture from my
breath condensing oh it looks like we
lost the back panel the back panel fell
right off oh and the buttons still in
there that right there is our button so
hopefully when that heats back up we’ll
be able to pop that back together so
cool while that’s thawing out let’s go
ahead and torture test the hero five
black we’ll leave this thing recording
until it shuts down all right let’s go
for a nitrogen dip so far so good
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let’s give it about another five seconds
here oh look at that the crystals in the
LCD are actually freezing up see even
though I’m moving the camera around it’s
not creating an image that is stationary
so we may have just fried the LCD we’re
pushing 45 seconds now and I just heard
the camera shutting down it stopped
recording LCD screen is still on so
let’s just go ahead and leave that and
see how long they’ll sit before the LCD
screen shuts off again oh and check this
GoPro out this has just got completely
frosty while we’ve been waiting that’s
insane
Frost do you heat the GoPro okay so the
LCD screen has turned off again can I
touch it to make it come back on let’s
find out okay it’s gone completely
unresponsive and you see how that just
frost over instantly the second it
touches the air alright so I think this
one is cooked let’s go ahead and set
that to the side so there was a glass
lens here and that’s popped off it looks
like the inner lens is still okay we may
have to fish off that glass lens let me
grab that really quick all right cool
that’s really cold it looks like it was
held on with some kind of adhesive that
probably just got so cold and cracked
away when that warms up we may be able
to just push it back into place but you
can see this inner lens looks like it’s
probably going to be just fine it was
just this protective lens that popped
off right now it’s probably about minus
300 degrees Fahrenheit it’s starting to
warm up just a little bit if we open the
battery compartment our battery is still
in there looks like it’s in pretty good
shape oh okay so that’s not coming out I
will just leave that in there it seems
that when the SD card gets too cold the
ejecting mechanism doesn’t work so we’re
gonna have to let that warm back up and
then we’ll see if we got any good
footage from it you can see the hero
session pops apart into three pieces we
got the button and the backplate and
then we got this little sensor this
moisture sensor it’ll be interesting to
see if that gets triggered because it
was just nitrogen so it shouldn’t
everyone does when I get stricken you
can see those came out pretty dang
frosty we’ll give those about 25 minutes
to warm back up and then pull the SD
cards and see if we can recover any of
that footage so update guys it’s a day
later now and these things have sat out
all night and completely acclimated back
to room temperature it took about an
hour for them to completely defrost
and unfortunately we lost all the data
we kept getting error messages saying
the SD cards were corrupted so none of
the footage that we got with the GoPros
was salvageable
unfortunately so here’s our hero five
black and here’s our hero five session
so let’s see if we can replace the
button and just pop that back panel back
in place so it looks like it’s just held
on by adhesive nothing really snaps into
place there which is kind of surprising
so apparently we got that adhesive so
cold that it just froze up and then when
this metal panel shrunk that’s what
caused it to pop off the back so now
that’s warmed up hopefully that will
stay in place the LCD display looks
completely normal if we press the button
it looks like we can even get it
recording what’s up welcome back from
your cryogenic bath so our hero five
sessions survived it looks like works in
perfect conditions so I’ll probably be
using this for future videos let’s check
out the hero 5 black and see how it held
up now the first damage we noticed
obviously is this protective screen
popped off so it’s obviously not
waterproof right now this ridge right
here is tacky though and now that it’s
warm back up we might be able to clean
that lens off clean this piece of glass
and put it back together so let’s find
some microfiber cloth and see if we can
restore it to its original condition I
am curious to know if the LCD screen
survived because when we were doing our
test if it froze the image and I almost
look like it destroyed it so it’ll be
interesting to see if that comes back on
so this display I noticed that there is
like a small crack it look like a hair
at first but I think it actually is a
crack and there definitely is something
in there between the layers of the
screen so that’s not optimal how
maybe we can turn this thing on okay
actually the LCD screen on the front is
still working that definitely is some
kind of a fracture or crack because I
can see it is raised up underneath the
surface there and there is some
discoloration in the screen it’s still
usable it’s just not perfect and we’ve
got an SD card error but look at this
the LCD screen is actually still working
and apparently it’s working very well
that’s still in really good condition
this blows my mind because that was
frozen solid you guys saw the image was
not moving I’m really impressed that
came back with such clarity how cool
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this is cool the glass didn’t crack or
anything so as long as we can clean this
up and put it back together it should be
in pretty good shape
alright that’s looking good and in place
and hopefully with a little bit of
pressure we can get that adhesive to
grab back on
I wonder if this voids the warranty cool
the screen is replaced it actually looks
like it’s back in there nice and tight
sweet so this is the hero 5 black I just
put a new SD card in and it was working
perfectly so there you have it guys now
you know what happens when you soak a
GoPro in liquid nitrogen they are
surprisingly resilient I had no idea
that they’d hold up that well so I threw
these things back in their packaging and
they’re almost as good as new they’re
fully functioning they work great and so
I’m going to pick two of you and give
these things away so stick around and
I’ll tell you how you can qualify here’s
how to win yourself the GoPro go to
Instagram comm slash the king of random
and click to follow my page for the next
7 days I’ll be posting Instagram stories
with bits of code embedded into them so
you’ll need to write down the code every
day for the next 7 days and then I’ll
post a link to where you can submit your
answer and enter to win the GoPro but
remember Instagram story’s only lasts
for 24 hours you need to check in every
day to get the next piece of the code
Instagram calm /the king of random
follow me there watch for the updates
and best of luck with the contest see ya
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